Subjects Archives: Movements

Israel undermined the prisoner exchange with Hamas by widening the definition of “security prisoners” to include those held for little more than social media posts.

Far-right deputy mayor of Jerusalem describes arrested Palestinians in Gaza as ‘subhuman’ and invokes biblical reference.

The indecency of the phrase ‘humanitarian pause’ is obvious. There is nothing humanitarian about a brief interlude between bouts of horrendous violence. There is no true ‘pause’, merely the calm before the storm continues.

Republican Congressman Max Miller, who recently made a genocidal call to turn Gaza into a “parking lot,” has joined with Republican Congressman David Kustoff to push through a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that “clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.”

“We need to cut through the smoke and mirrors of ‘abated’ fossil and keep our eyes fixed on the goal of 1.5°C,” said a co-author of a new analysis.

Russia wanted to sign a peace deal with Ukraine in March 2022, but NATO countries sabotaged it, according to Germany’s former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and the parliamentary faction leader of Zelensky’s political party, Davyd Arakhamia.

Some 85 percent of staff of the National Health Service and private medical facilities stayed away from work.

Israel remains the only country in the world to automatically and systematically prosecute children in military courts. Yet world leaders say nothing.

And a comparison with issues raised in Australia’s recent referendum.

Gaza was a free-fire zone on Saturday and Sunday, with UN officials saying that no place in the Strip is safe. Hundreds were killed, almost all of them innocent noncombatants, and including a worrisome number of children.

It is clear that the Venezuelans who came to cast their vote on December 3 in a referendum on the Essequibo region saw this less as a conflict between Venezuela and Guyana and more as a conflict between ExxonMobil and the people of these two Latin American countries

Democrats are terrified because they are losing their grip on the young. A new poll says half of Americans under 35 see Hamas’s October 7 attack as justified by Palestinian grievances. Young Americans are seeing the enormity of genocide.

Historical responsibility for climate change is radically shifted when colonial rule is taken into account, Carbon Brief analysis reveals.

The Biden Administration extols the Camp David Agreement as a qualitative leap forward in the US, Japan, and South Korea military cooperation.

President-elect Javier Milei moves to privatize energy—and everything else.

Over 100 solidarity actions planned in Britain on Saturday.

Νine lawmakers of left-wing SYRIZA announced on Thursday morning that they break way from Greece’s main opposition party seeking to form their own parliamentary group. Early aftenoon, also MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis announced his departure from the party.

Who would’ve thought that Israeli propaganda is so fragile that it can be defeated by acts of normal human interaction: blowing a kiss, waving goodbye, or simply just smiling?

Before he won Argentina’s presidential election on 19 November, Javier Milei circulated a video of himself in front of a series of white boards.

A review of Robert Cherny’s “Harry Bridges Labor Radical, Labor Legend”, University of Illinois Press 2023.